From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wb at freebie.xs4all.nl]
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:45:34PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote..
> > From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> > > Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > > Log:
> > > > Add _dhcp user/group as required by the OpenBSD dhclient.
> > >
> > > What is the point of the underscore in _dhcp and _pflogd?
> >
> > It's a convention used for system UIDs to prevent namespace collisions
with
> > user accounts.
>> Then it is not really all to consistently used (politely speaking)
> looking at what by default lives in /etc/passwd as system UIDs...
If you look at the FreeBSD /etc/passwd, sure, but this is an OpenBSD
convention. Looking at the OpenBSD src/etc/master.passwd[1], it's very
consistently used, with the few system UIDs not starting with an underscore
being either legacy names or tied to a third-party package (sendmail, BIND,
popa3d).
[1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/master.passwd
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